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The Rock

(Fragment of a Ritual)

unmoved

from time without

end

you rest

there in the midst of the paths

in the midst of the winds

you rest

covered with the droppings of birds

grass growing from your feet

your head decked with the down of birds

you rest

in the midst of the winds

you wait

Aged one

[adapted from Alice C. Fletcher and Francis La Flesche, 'The Omaha Tribe', in Twenty-seventh Annual BAE Report, Washington D.C., 1911]